40 PROFILE BUSINESS AREAS PULP AND PAPER > The Mechanical Pulping Systems Division is a leading global supplier of complete systems for producing highquality and high-brightness mechanical and chemi-mechanical pulps for paper and board production and high-quality fibers for Medium Density Fiberboard and Particleboard producers. The high-efficiency pulping technology is based on proprietary RTS (Retention time, Temperature, and Speed) refining and alkaline P-RC APMP (Preconditioning-Refiner Chemical / Alkaline Peroxide Mechanical Pulping) processes. Equipment for washing and high-consistency bleaching makes the Division a comprehensive supplier of systems solutions for mechanical pulping. The Division operates through its headquarters in Vienna and Graz, Austria, as well as locations in Canada and the USA. The Division’s research laboratory and pilot plant in the USA is a completely equipped and independently certified process research facility. Business development In a move to better support customer needs with focused solutions, the Mechanical Pulping Systems Division has recently been reorganized. Pulp dewatering and drying systems had grown to the extent that it became a separate Division, enabling Mechanical Pulping Systems to increase its focus on its core technologies. The Division successfully completed the HC bleach plants for MD Paper in Plattling, Germany, StoraEnso in Veitsiluoto, Finland, and Holmen Paper in Wargön, Sweden. Another twin wire press was also installed at Holmen Paper’s mill in Hallstavik, Sweden. <strong>ANDRITZ</strong> <strong>2004</strong> MECHANICAL PULPING SYSTEMS DIVISION DIVISION MANAGER Wolfgang Lashofer Vienna, Austria (since January 1, 2005) Twin wire press washing systems were successfully commissioned for Lenzing, Austria, and Jiangmen Paper in China. P-RC APMP systems were started up successfully for Shandong Tralin Paper, Shandong Chenming, Yueyang Paper of China, and Tembec’s Malette mill in Canada. The RTS system, bleaching line, and heat recovery system for CMPC Papeles in Chile was started up successfully. Another RTS system was completed for Solikamsk in Russia. A total of 17 MDF refining systems were successfully started up in China for several different customers. In addition, two MDF start-ups in Turkey and the start-up of an MDF production line in Russia were completed in <strong>2004</strong>. Major orders The Division will supply, in cooperation with the Wood Processing and Pulp Drying Systems Divisions, a complete hardwood chemimechanical market pulp mill – including woodyard, chip handling, impregnation, refining, bleaching, dewatering, drying, and pulp baling systems – to be built in Kunda, Estonia. The mill will use proven Andritz P-RC APMP technology to produce a variety of market pulp grades from aspen wood. Andritz will supply all the major production systems. The Division will supply the complete chip impregnation system, bleaching, and washing systems as part of the multi-Division order from M-real for a greenfield Bleached Chemi-Thermo Mechanical Pulp (BCTMP) mill to be built in Kaskinen, Finland.
MECHANICAL PULPING SYSTEMS DIVISION BUSINESS AREAS PULP AND PAPER Refiner The high-speed refiner depicted is part of the new RTS-TMP line supplied to Cartulinas CMPC S.A. in Maule, Chile. It is a key element of the pulping system which produces fiber for paperboard from local pine wood resources. In addition to the new mechanical pulping line, the Andritz delivery included a high-consistency bleach plant, a heat recovery system, and an existing machinery upgrade program. <strong>ANDRITZ</strong> <strong>2004</strong> 41